Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel (16 February 1862 – 2 October 1936, in

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) was a German

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialised in

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. Stichel was born in

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Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

Province of Posen The Province of Posen (german: Provinz Posen, pl, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. Posen was established in 1848 following the Greater Poland Uprising as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, w ...

(Wronki, Poland) and attended the ''Royal

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'' of

. In May 1882, he started to study philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University Berlin. After the death of his father he had to stop his studies in 1883 for financial reasons. Stichel then began a career as a

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civil servant becoming director of railway materials first class in 1893. In 1921, he became a higher inspector and in 1922 Director of the office in Berlin. From 1892, he devoted his spare time to the publication of entomological reviews. From 1912 to 1923, he directed the publication of ''Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie'' (Journal of scientific insect biology) and ''Neuen Beiträge zur systematischen Insektenkunde'' (New posts on systematic entomology). He was also the author of more than one hundred publications on insects, mainly butterflies. Stichel moreover took part in collective publications like ''Das Tierreich'', '' Grossschmetterlinge der Erde'', ''Nomenclator Animalium Generum and Subgenerum'', ''Genera Insectorum'' and ''Catalogus Lepidopterum''. He was a member of various entomological societies and received, in 1927, an honorary doctorate.

Works

*Stichel, H.F.E.J. in Seitz, 1906 (Parnassius). ''Die Groß-Schmetterlinge der Erde''. Die Groß-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, Stuttgart. *Stichel, H.F.E.J. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam. Riodinidae. J. Wytsman ''Genera Insectorum'' 112A 1-238. J. Wytsman Brussels.(1910–11). *Stichel, H.F.E.J. 1909 Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der Riodinidae Grote (Erycinidae Swains.) ''Berl. ent. Z.'' 54 (1/2) : 1-48 *Stichel, H.F.E.J. 1910 Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der Riodinidae Grote (Erycinidae Swains.) (Lep. Rhop.) ''Berl. ent. Z.'' 55 (1/2) : 9-103 *Stichel, H.F.E.J. 1911. Fam. Riodinidae. Allgemeines—Subfam. Riodininae. ''Genera Insectorum'', 112 (B), 239–452. *Stichel, H.F.E.J. 1928 Die Veröffentlichungen über Erycinidae von A. Seitz im Spiegelbild der Kritik. (Lep. Rhopal.). ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift'', 1928 (2), 146–160. *Stichel,H.F.E.J. 1930 Riodinidae ''Lepidopterorum Catalogus'' 38: 1-112 (1930), 40: 113-544 (1930), 41: 545-720 (1930), 44: 721-795 (1931) to be continued {{DEFAULTSORT:Stichel, Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius 1862 births 1936 deaths People from Wronki People from the Province of Posen German lepidopterists